My first name is Marlene. Pronounced mar-lay-na (the E sounds like an AY, thanks Mom). That's how I say it.

"Can you spell that for me?""M-A-R-L-E-N-E.""M-A-R-O-E-N-E."

How the fuck does someone get an O out of Marlene? (There's a whole separate complaint about how people get Tiffany out of that.)

Fetzie wrote:The Defias Brotherhood is back, and this time they are acting as racketeers in Goldshire. Anybody wishing to dance for money must now pay them protection money or be charged triple the normal amount when repairing.

Oh man, but then they'd think I'm referring to myself that way, instead of them.

As it is, right now I just get annoyed and repeat it very slowly. Then they understand.

Fetzie wrote:The Defias Brotherhood is back, and this time they are acting as racketeers in Goldshire. Anybody wishing to dance for money must now pay them protection money or be charged triple the normal amount when repairing.

I'm having problems with my phone at work. It's run by buggy glitchy awful software on my computer. My problem is that I can't make outbound calls without getting the "fast busy signal." Well, I can after 3-10 minutes of attempting. Same problem with internal phone transfers.

So I emailed our software support team. "Hey, yeah, I can't make outbound calls."

Their response: "Sorry, we don't handle that, call the hardware team at <this number> and choose option 2."

I'm mightily resisting the urge to email back a reply, "sure, I can do that when you can tell me how I'm supposed to do that. Shall I use someone else's phone, or my mobile?"

Fetzie wrote:The Defias Brotherhood is back, and this time they are acting as racketeers in Goldshire. Anybody wishing to dance for money must now pay them protection money or be charged triple the normal amount when repairing.

theckhd wrote:Fuck no, we've seen what you do to guilds. Just imagine what you could do to an entire country. Just visiting the US might be enough to make the southern states try to secede again.

halabar wrote:Noo.. you don't realize the problem. Worldie was to negative guild breaking energy like Bolvar is to the Scourge. If Worldie is removed, than someone must pick up that mantle, otherwise that negative guild breaking energy will run rampant, destroying all the servers.

How does that work if you don't have them? Get the flu, so you come to work (do poorly due to being sick) and infect everyone else? how is that profitable for a company?

(Around here we have whats called "The Functionary Law", which, due to EU regulations, covers any employee.It states that to be laid off due to too much sickness, you have to have more than 120 sick days within the running 12 months, and that you cannot count sick days that stem from accidents or injuries sustained during work.

Sure, its not all jobs you get payed during sick days (but any job with a salary, rather than hours you do, and being payed by hours is not very common anymore (it generally costs the empoyer more in both administration, and in overtime, as overtime is doneone a weekly basis rather than running 3 weeks which is the case when on salary)

Being on contract instead of salary is a different thing ofc, but usually if you are under contract, you are high enough in the hierarchy that you don't take sick days as such, you just do the work at another time (since there is usually few if any others to pick up the slack at that level).

Sidetracking into a bit of sarcasm:We've got 300 or so computers (which were bought for less than € 200).The only spot that has a dedicated security system is the iron gate (using a card reader), and then, nothing all the way to the server room that has (get this) a lock and a motion detector (your run-of-the-mill, commercial alarm thingie).

Saying the bosses are kind of scrooges would guarantee me understatement of the year 2014 award, even this early.I keep telling myself I should run away, but at least they're vapid enough not to notice the maintankadining overmuch.

When that day comes, seek all the light and wonder of this world, and fight.

know this feeling. I wanted to buy some security for my shop, but ended up deciding to hope my "very strong lock" will work as they demanded almost 1k euro for just a single camera system.

theckhd wrote:Fuck no, we've seen what you do to guilds. Just imagine what you could do to an entire country. Just visiting the US might be enough to make the southern states try to secede again.

halabar wrote:Noo.. you don't realize the problem. Worldie was to negative guild breaking energy like Bolvar is to the Scourge. If Worldie is removed, than someone must pick up that mantle, otherwise that negative guild breaking energy will run rampant, destroying all the servers.

know this feeling. I wanted to buy some security for my shop, but ended up deciding to hope my "very strong lock" will work as they demanded almost 1k euro for just a single camera system.

Actually, this is gignormous sarcasm. To put things in perspective, we just invested in 75, 300€, Dells, as many telephones and screens, a new server blade and our headcount has just broken the 300-mark. To give an idea, we're dealing with roughly 20 000 calls a day.

So when I hear about "too expensive", I raise an eyebrow to match David Tennant's

When that day comes, seek all the light and wonder of this world, and fight.

theckhd wrote:Fuck no, we've seen what you do to guilds. Just imagine what you could do to an entire country. Just visiting the US might be enough to make the southern states try to secede again.

halabar wrote:Noo.. you don't realize the problem. Worldie was to negative guild breaking energy like Bolvar is to the Scourge. If Worldie is removed, than someone must pick up that mantle, otherwise that negative guild breaking energy will run rampant, destroying all the servers.

Worst-case idea:Keep data on a local unit, and have someone halfway decent write a script that creates a new file and sends the old one to, say, an external drive. Have him make you an exe so that when you get back home and plug the drive, you just start the .exe to have the file stocked somewhere on your home computer and then delete it from the drive.

A bit of daily management, but it's not that hard. We had something similar with our entire customer database at my previous job (using NASes and automated backups, but concept's the same).

When that day comes, seek all the light and wonder of this world, and fight.

Worst-case idea:Keep data on a local unit, and have someone halfway decent write a script that creates a new file and sends the old one to, say, an external drive. Have him make you an exe so that when you get back home and plug the drive, you just start the .exe to have the file stocked somewhere on your home computer and then delete it from the drive.

A bit of daily management, but it's not that hard. We had something similar with our entire customer database at my previous job (using NASes and automated backups, but concept's the same).

My inner software developer just died a little inside after reading this... But yeah, that "could" work :p If you got a decent internet connection (without data limits) you could also make something that just sends the file through the internet with a private network ish idea (like Hamachi for example). That would be more foolproof I think :p

theckhd wrote:Fuck no, we've seen what you do to guilds. Just imagine what you could do to an entire country. Just visiting the US might be enough to make the southern states try to secede again.

halabar wrote:Noo.. you don't realize the problem. Worldie was to negative guild breaking energy like Bolvar is to the Scourge. If Worldie is removed, than someone must pick up that mantle, otherwise that negative guild breaking energy will run rampant, destroying all the servers.